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This is a tricky one. BFD, on the linker's behalf, reports symbols to libctf via the ctf_new_symbol and ctf_new_dynsym callbacks, which ultimately call ctf_link_add_linker_symbol. But while this happens after strtab offsets are finalized, it happens before the .dynstr is actually laid out, so we can't iterate over it at this stage and it is not clear what the reported symbols are actually called. So a second callback, examine_strtab, is called after the .dynstr is finalized, which calls ctf_link_add_strtab and ultimately leads to ldelf_ctf_strtab_iter_cb being called back repeatedly until the offsets of every string in the .dynstr is passed to libctf. libctf can then use this to get symbol names out of the input (which usually stores symbol types in the form of a name -> type mapping at this stage) and extract the types of those symbols, feeding them back into their final form as a 1:1 association with the real symtab's STT_OBJ and STT_FUNC symbols (with a few skipped, see ctf_symtab_skippable). This representation is compact, but has one problem: if libctf somehow gets confused about the st_type of a symbol, it'll stick an entry into the function symtypetab when it should put it into the object symtypetab, or vice versa, and *every symbol from that one on* will have the wrong CTF type because it's actually looking up the type for a different symbol. And we have just such a bug. ctf_link_add_strtab was not taking the refcounts of strings into consideration, so even strings that had been eliminated from the strtab by virtue of being in objects eliminated via --as-needed etc were being reported. This is harmful because it can lead to multiple strings with the same apparent offset, and if the last duplicate to be reported relates to an eliminated symbol, we look up the wrong symbol from the input and gets its type wrong: if it's unlucky and the eliminated symbol is also of the wrong st_type, we will end up with a corrupted symtypetab. Thankfully the wrong-st_type case is already diagnosed by a this-can-never-happen paranoid warning: CTF warning: Symbol 61a added to CTF as a function but is of type 1 or the converse * CTF warning: Symbol a3 added to CTF as a data object but is of type 2 so at least we can tell when the corruption has spread to more than one symbol's type. Skipping zero-refcounted strings is easy: teach _bfd_elf_strtab_str to skip them, and ldelf_ctf_strtab_iter_cb to loop over skipped strings until it falls off the end or finds one that isn't skipped. bfd/ChangeLog 2021-03-02 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * elf-strtab.c (_bfd_elf_strtab_str): Skip strings with zero refcount. ld/ChangeLog 2021-03-02 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ldelfgen.c (ldelf_ctf_strtab_iter_cb): Skip zero-refcount strings. libctf/ChangeLog 2021-03-02 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ctf-create.c (symtypetab_density): Report the symbol name as well as index in the name != object error; note the likely consequences. * ctf-link.c (ctf_link_shuffle_syms): Report the symbol index as well as name. |
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texi), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texi).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texi manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
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